Thursday, September 14, 2006
What i thought was just a random fever bout for Amirul turned out to be a medical castastrophe for 3 of us. It began with just a simple report from Amirul's teacher that he vomitted twice in class earlier on Wednesday. On the way to pick him up,I felt cold sweat on my body which I thought was just due to the humid hot weather. Amirul looked fresh & bright, the thing that gave it away is when he started vomitting out everything that we gave him afterwards. About 4-5 times, I think. In the afternoon, I felt woozy & nauseous, not having had stomach flu before, I thought it was just the effect of our very late night outing and the weather.When I start to vomit out whatever that I ate, followed by my regurgitating husband, I thought something is really wrong. Between 3 of us, we threw up a total of 9 times and just ate a slice of bread for fear of vomitting what we just ate. The dr confirmed it was stomach flu and it IS contagious. My body didn't feel like mine anymore, between the medication and the constant vomitting, I was totally beyond myself. Felt so helpless & useless. We were so weak and went around the house like zombies(yes, it was THAT bad) Luckily Amira was with an aunt, and she had kindly baby-sat Amira the whole night through.felt better in the morning but I still feel a wee bit nausea and feel like I'm floating on air half the time. Unfortunately some emergency cropped up at work, and I forced myself to leave the house to rush the design job.Did it as fast as possible - its amazing I even survived the taxi trip with the driver blasting his cantonese song selection like a getai-performance all the way through. Luckily my hubby was well enough to pick me up after my 3-hr rush job to quickly bring me home so I can just lie down and rest.Gosh I wish it would be over soon, and the dr did reassure that it would be ok in 2-3 days time...til then, I just need to lie down again.